Recognitions For Veer Surendra Sai
Citizens of Sambalpur region feels Surendar Sai, should have been recorded with greater importance in the history of India's struggle for independence. According to them, he is yet to get the right place because of the state administration's ignorance and carelessness. Even historians and research scholars also have been blamed. Many important documents and papers relating to Sundar Sai are said to be still existing at different archives in Bhopal, Nagpur and Raipur. The Government of Orissa is said to have done nothing in this regard.
- In 2009, The Government of Orissa changed the name of University College of Engineering the oldest engineering college of the state to Veer Surendra Sai University of Technology, Burla in honour of this great leader.
- In 2005, Government of India decided to put a statue of veer surendra Sai at the premises of Parliament of India.
- One of the oldest colleges in Orissa has been named after him as Veer Surendra Sai Medical College, located in Burla, Sambalpur, it is operating since 1959.
- Government of India has released a postal stamp in his honour.
On 23 January 2009 people of Kosal region as well as India celebrated the 2nd Birth Centenary of Veer Surendra Sai. On the occasion, 'Paschim Odisha Agrani Sangathan' of Bhubaneswar brought out a book titled Surendra Sai edited by Dr. Chitrasen Pasayat and Dr. Prabhas Kumar Singh. Also, another book titled Veer Surendra Sai: The Great Revolutionary edited by Dr. Chitrasen Pasayat and Sri Sasanka Sekhar Panda has been published by Anusheelan, Sambalpur.
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